don’t you love a good staircase? i do. i think partly because i don’t have one. i grew up in a ranch style home, and as far back as i can remember, i knew that i wanted a two story house when i grew up. funny enough, i still live in that ranch i grew up in. so for now, i just like to dream of cool staircases for my one day some day house.

ever since i was little i wanted a spiral staircase. don’t all little girls? i feel like there was some show in the 80’s / 90’s where some girl had one? maybe? i can’t remember for sure, but i was for sure dreaming of one.

we had a week of doing things like going to king burger in a snow storm (as in burger king, in which we found 2 hairs in one kids size french fries – eww ), driving an hour to cabella’s to see taxidermy animals, and watching way too much tv (kids screaming, “i want that, i want that” every time a commercial comes on – i suppose we will have to tv detox once its warm enough to leave our cave). the ground is still white and the winds are still howling. winter is still doing its thing here in the mid-west.

but, flowers lifted my spirits again. on one of our drives we stopped into trader joes (which is no where near our house) and i had to grab a bouquet. the photos are making me just as happy as the flowers themselves, actually. rocco had fun shredding a few, but as i’m learning . . . there is beauty in the broken.

are you all surviving winter? go ahead, rant and rave and tell me how you are surviving. i’d love to know.

if you need to, take a drive, take a bath, pick up your favorite magazine, buy some flowers and light a tropical candle. just don’t listen to your toddler when they say they want to go to king burger. you might find out, like we did, that they only wanted to go for the chocolate milk?!!!!!

this wallpaper! i’ve been swooning over cupcakes + cashmere’s new powder room (below) for the past week. mostly the wallpaper. like, can’t get it out of my mind, it’s so gorgeous, i really want it, kind of swooning.

the pattern is called dark floral and is by designer ellie cashman, who lives in the netherlands and is, clearly, inspired by all of the beautiful flowers there (must get to the netherlands – – on my to do list).

i’m not a fan of endings (unless it is a 973 page book that i’ve labored over or a day that has been hurried and harried and covered in peanut butter and jelly). i usually tend to see endings in a most melancholy way. but, what if endings are really just beginnings in disguise? i understand the thought might not work on every this or that, but… if you think about it, it might mend your thoughts just a bit and perhaps even put a little hope in your heart for the possibility of a new beginning. if you are at an end and find that your eyes are a little blurry and your heart is finding hope foreign or forgotten, don’t be alarmed because endings, especially really big ones, can feel that way (perhaps with big endings, come big beginnings). sometimes you just need someone to come along side of you and stand there with you. and, over time, you will begin to feel a little less foggy and the idea of a beginning won’t frustrate or frighten you. it will be strange, but you may find it might just excite you.

if you are at an end, then i hope these words will stand beside you and stick with you and drop a little hope in your heart.

02 / a chair wildly surrounded by scattered greens and stacks of books

03 / a hanging daybed in a sea of white

it’s been awhile since i’ve done a happy spots post. while i like to have entire rooms that make me happy i find it much easier to start by making spots, nooks, corners, and areas just as i like them. focusing on smaller spaces is much more doable for me and i find that i then sometimes come up with bigger ideas based upon one little spot.

i’d be super happy to hang out in any of these spots on a regular basis.

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